Didática bruta – por uma arte socialmente implicada

Abstract

This research aims to discuss the concepts and practices of what I call “Socially Implicated Art” through the presentation and analysis of the artistic works that I have been developing over the last ten years during my classes in municipal public elementary schools, in Bangu, west Zone of Rio de Janeiro city. Starting from the concepts and practices of “Socially Engaged Art” theorized by Pablo Helguera in his book “Education for a Socially Engaged Art”, from 2011, I developed a process of working and thinking though wich I approach and relate Helguera's theories with those of Paulo Freire and his critical and committed education, in addition to Luiz Camnitzer's ideas that defend art as a teaching methodology for reading and understanding the world. In my production, both those that I developed alone and those that were carried out in collaboration with my students, the use of the specific and characteristic materiality of the school, together with the representation of their faces, their stories and their living conditions, are given in an attempt to raise questions and discussions about the problems that involve living and studying in a public and precarious school within a community under the strong influence of violence commited by the organized crime and State agents. The aim is to investigate how formal and informal training processes take place within this panorama and how much art is capable of making us understand and express our feelings and understandings about this reality